The Last Message From Shanann Watts That Shocked Everyone. — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, you're just with me this morning. I
2. 0:02just hopped out of the shower and I'm
3. 0:04getting ready.
4. 0:06My mother-in-law's here today. So, she
5. 0:09flew in to spend 2 weeks with the girls
6. 0:12and
7. 0:13her and my father-in-law are going to
8. 0:16babysit the kids while we are in Punta
9. 0:19Cana. So, I'm really excited. We're
10. 0:22going to go to the store and
11. 0:24wander around a little bit today.
12. 0:27So, you're here with me getting ready
13. 0:28cuz
14. 0:29um
15. 0:31it's a busy busy day for me.
16. 0:33Um
17. 0:35I have to finalize our taxes today. So,
18. 0:38that's going to be
19. 0:40get that out of the way before we leave.
20. 0:44Um
21. 0:46So, good morning Christina.
22. 0:49Sorry, I'm getting ready.
23. 0:51Um
24. 0:52Hey Mandy.
25. 0:55Uh
26. 0:57You got to exfoliate.
27. 0:59Best exfoliator for your lips ever.
28. 1:02So,
29. 1:04I wanted to come on here
30. 1:07um to get ready
31. 1:10and talk to you guys because
32. 1:13a lot has happened this past year.
33. 1:16And
34. 1:18this day last year, I made the biggest
35. 1:21decision that I made in a long time.
36. 1:25And that was to officially
37. 1:27um
38. 1:28make my initial purchase with Le-Vel.
39. 1:31Hey Michelle.
40. 1:33Um
41. 1:35So, today marks 1-year anniversary for
42. 1:39my Thrive experience.
43. 1:41I can't believe it cuz I almost forgot.
44. 1:43Like
45. 1:44I forget what month we're in.
46. 1:46Um
47. 1:48So, this time last year
48. 1:50I was
49. 1:52a free customer for a little over for
50. 1:55month with my buddy Mandy.
51. 1:59And I finally said, "Okay, I had enough
52. 2:02with the way I felt
53. 2:04and it was time for me to make a
54. 2:06change."
55. 2:07And I know that I was a skeptic for 14
56. 2:11months.
57. 2:12I was the worst friend ever to Mandy.
58. 2:15Sorry, the lighting's horrible in here.
59. 2:17Morning, Sarah.
60. 2:19Um
61. 2:20So, I was the worst friend. I ignored
62. 2:22her posts. I ignored her text messages.
63. 2:25I ignored
64. 2:26um anything she had mentioned about
65. 2:28Thrive. I pretty much ignored her.
66. 2:31Can you guys hear me okay? Cuz I'm a
67. 2:33little bit away from the phone.
68. 2:37If I can get ready properly.
69. 2:39Um So, anyway.
70. 2:42Um
71. 2:43>> [clears throat]
72. 2:43>> So, I was the worst friend whatsoever
73. 2:46with Mandy.
74. 2:47And
75. 2:49um
76. 2:50she basically didn't give up on me. She
77. 2:53knew my struggles. She knew um
78. 2:56you know, what I was going through like
79. 2:58health-wise.
80. 2:59Um
81. 3:00you know, I had two kids, brand new mom
82. 3:03still.
83. 3:04Um
84. 3:05Even though my daughter's three, I'm
85. 3:06still a brand new mom.
86. 3:08Um So, like it was just a lot on me and
87. 3:11I was working two jobs. Um one
88. 3:13full-time, one part-time. So, I was
89. 3:15working about 60 hours a week and still
90. 3:18uh stay-at-home mom all day long. So, I
91. 3:21was really exhausted. Um
92. 3:24>> [clears throat]
93. 3:24>> exhausted, tired, um drained. I couldn't
94. 3:28focus. I couldn't think straight. Um
95. 3:31Look at the eyebrows. I have them now.
96. 3:33>> Welcome to Dark Matters: True Crime, the
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100. 3:43we explore the darkest corners of the
101. 3:44human mind. On the night before
102. 3:46everything changed, Shannan Watts was
103. 3:49doing something she often did,
104. 3:51communicating with friends and family.
105. 3:54She had just returned home after a
106. 3:56business trip, exhausted but still
107. 3:58thinking about her family and the life
108. 4:00she had built with Chris Watts.
109. 4:03To the outside world, Shannan's life
110. 4:05looked full of love and promise.
111. 4:08She shared moments online, talked
112. 4:10proudly about her daughters Bella Watts
113. 4:12and Celeste Watts, and often spoke about
114. 4:15the future she was planning for her
115. 4:17growing family.
116. 4:19But that night, something felt
117. 4:20different.
118. 4:22>> Just wait.
119. 4:23Hi guys. Say hi Bella.
120. 4:25>> on?
121. 4:25>> Hi.
122. 4:27>> We got to get you dressed, kid.
123. 4:28>> Bella's eating Bella's eating some of
124. 4:30the ingredients.
125. 4:31>> Oh, she's got a nice little bowl of
126. 4:33chocolate chips.
127. 4:35>> Look at that. What is that Bella? Can
128. 4:36you show them?
129. 4:39What is it?
130. 4:41>> Chocolate.
131. 4:42>> Is it chocolate?
132. 4:43>> Is it chocolate?
133. 4:45>> It's chocolate
134. 4:47uh little mini morsels, right?
135. 4:50Yeah, good job. So she's been eating my
136. 4:53peanut butter and the chocolate morsels
137. 4:55so far today. So
138. 4:57We're going to let a few more people hop
139. 4:58on and then we're going to get um
140. 5:00cooking here and we'll explain to you
141. 5:02what we're cooking up over here. So
142. 5:04um
143. 5:05>> Yeah, welcome to the 12 Days of
144. 5:07Christmas LaBelle Day and
145. 5:10even though uh
146. 5:14I like to claim that I could probably
147. 5:16cook, I can't at all. So I'm going to
148. 5:18let my wife
149. 5:19do all the the cooking. She's going to
150. 5:21make up some Thrive Bites for us.
151. 5:23>> And I'm going to go wash my hands real
152. 5:24fast.
153. 5:25>> Uh-oh.
154. 5:26She's going to leave me here alone.
155. 5:28Oh, we got some people joining. Bella,
156. 5:30look. Got people Got people looking at
157. 5:32us. Say hi.
158. 5:35Wife's going to be making up some Thrive
159. 5:36Bites here in a second, so make sure you
160. 5:39hop on and join us for the 12 Days of
161. 5:41Christmas.
162. 5:43Bella's got some chocolate chips.
163. 5:45>> I need a little Bella apron.
164. 5:47>> They're probably on.
165. 5:48>> Hey Michelle. Hey Amanda.
166. 5:51Bella's showing you what she's eating.
167. 5:53She's eating
168. 5:53>> Friends would later recall that Shannan
169. 5:55had sent a message expressing concern
170. 5:58about her relationship. It wasn't
171. 6:00dramatic or alarming at first glance,
172. 6:03but the tone was noticeably worried. She
173. 6:06told a close friend that Chris had been
174. 6:08distant, quieter than usual, and
175. 6:10emotionally disconnected.
176. 6:13It was the kind of message many people
177. 6:15send when they are trying to understand
178. 6:17what is happening in their relationship.
179. 6:20Shannan wasn't angry. Instead, she
180. 6:23sounded confused and hurt. She simply
181. 6:26wanted to know why things felt so
182. 6:28different between them lately.
183. 6:30What Shannan didn't know was that Chris
184. 6:32had already been living a double life,
185. 6:35one that involved a secret relationship
186. 6:37with Nichol Kessinger. That hidden
187. 6:39relationship had been growing for weeks,
188. 6:42quietly changing the dynamics inside the
189. 6:45Watts household.
190. 6:47To Shannan, however, there was still
191. 6:49hope that things could be fixed.
192. 6:51That final message she sent would later
193. 6:54become one of the most heartbreaking
194. 6:55details in the entire case.
195. 6:58Because only hours later, something
196. 7:01unthinkable would happen. Something that
197. 7:03would shock the world and leave
198. 7:05investigators trying to piece together
199. 7:07what went wrong inside a home that once
200. 7:10looked so normal.
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205. 7:21When Shannan Watts returned home from
206. 7:23her trip, it was late and the house was
207. 7:25quiet. Most people in the neighborhood
208. 7:28were already asleep. After a long flight
209. 7:31and a drive back home, she was tired but
210. 7:34relieved to finally be back with her
211. 7:35family.
212. 7:37But even before that night, Shannan had
213. 7:40already begun feeling that something in
214. 7:42her marriage with Chris Watts had
215. 7:43changed.
216. 7:45In the weeks leading up to that moment,
217. 7:47Chris had grown increasingly distant.
218. 7:50The warm conversations they once shared
219. 7:52had become shorter. Messages that used
220. 7:55to be filled with affection now felt
221. 7:57cold and brief. Shannon noticed the
222. 7:59difference and it worried her.
223. 8:02Friends later revealed that Shannon had
224. 8:04been opening up about her concerns. She
225. 8:06had sent messages explaining that Chris
226. 8:09didn't seem like himself anymore. He was
227. 8:11quiet, withdrawn, and emotionally far
228. 8:14away from the man she believed she knew.
229. 8:18At first, she tried to explain it away.
230. 8:20Maybe he was stressed from work. Maybe
231. 8:23he was just tired. Relationships
232. 8:25sometimes go through difficult moments
233. 8:27and Shannon was determined to fix things
234. 8:30rather than give up.
235. 8:32What she didn't fully realize at the
236. 8:33time was that Chris had been hiding a
237. 8:36secret relationship with Nichol
238. 8:38Kessinger. While Shannon was trying to
239. 8:40understand what was happening in her
240. 8:42marriage, Chris had already begun
241. 8:44imagining a completely different future.
242. 8:48That secret would later become one of
243. 8:50the most disturbing aspects of the case.
244. 8:53As Shannon walked into the house that
245. 8:55night, she likely believed she would
246. 8:58have another chance to talk with Chris,
247. 9:00to ask questions, to repair the distance
248. 9:03that had grown between them.
249. 9:04>> in there. I've done that. But, I'm
250. 9:06choosing even on my worst days to not
251. 9:09let the negativity bring me down because
252. 9:12at the end of the day,
253. 9:14I mean,
254. 9:16when I was negative and I breed I I I
255. 9:19lived and breathed negativity, it showed
256. 9:22on my family. It showed on my children.
257. 9:23It showed on myself.
258. 9:25Um
259. 9:27It shows. Like, it really truly shows.
260. 9:29So, you have to um
261. 9:35What I do now is and again, don't get me
262. 9:38wrong. I have my bad days. I have my off
263. 9:40days. We all do. We're human, right? But
264. 9:43on those days, I choose to do something
265. 9:45that will bring me up. Whether it's
266. 9:47reading a book, or reading a quote, or
267. 9:52reading something finding something
268. 9:55positive to read. Um because I'm I'm
269. 9:59choosing to be better in life. And I
270. 10:02choose happiness. I choose um
271. 10:06drama-free life. I want a drama-free
272. 10:08life. Oh my gosh. Colorado makes me feel
273. 10:10like it's drama-free life because
274. 10:12Colorado is just
275. 10:15amazing.
276. 10:16Um absolutely amazing. Sorry.
277. 10:19Um
278. 10:20But that's how I feel. I feel at peace
279. 10:21here in Colorado. And everyone wonders
280. 10:23why we moved to Colorado because I do. I
281. 10:26feel at peace here. Um I don't know how
282. 10:29to explain it. I don't know how to
283. 10:31describe it. I just feel
284. 10:34I feel at home, if that makes sense at
285. 10:35all. Um
286. 10:38so
287. 10:39I don't know if I am helping anyone
288. 10:42today, comment something. I feel like
289. 10:45I'm rambling. I'm not making sense.
290. 10:47Um but I felt like I needed to share
291. 10:49today.
292. 10:50Um
293. 10:51Share from my heart. I never um make
294. 10:53sense. Sometimes I feel like I ramble.
295. 10:58Um that's my insecurity coming in. It's
296. 11:00my um confidence trying to attack me.
297. 11:03Um
298. 11:04but I feel like
299. 11:07I can relate to somebody, and somebody
300. 11:09can relate to me, and feel the same. You
301. 11:13know? Um
302. 11:16I was never the smartest kid on the
303. 11:17block. I worked my tail off to um fight
304. 11:22through school. Uh
305. 11:24I was not a book like Chris is a
306. 11:25book-smart person. He reads something
307. 11:27one time, and he's like, it's memorized.
308. 11:30Me, on the other hand, I
309. 11:31>> But the hours ahead would unfold in a
310. 11:33way no one could have imagined.
311. 11:36And by the next morning, the quiet
312. 11:38suburban home would become the center of
313. 11:41one of the most shocking investigations
314. 11:43in modern true crime.
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319. 11:54When Shanann Watts arrived home in the
320. 11:57early hours of the morning, the house
321. 11:59was dark and quiet. Most of the
322. 12:01neighborhood was asleep, and the streets
323. 12:03were nearly empty.
324. 12:05After a long trip, Shanann quietly
325. 12:08entered the home she shared with Chris
326. 12:10Watts, expecting nothing more than a
327. 12:12normal night.
328. 12:14But inside that house, tension had been
329. 12:16building for weeks.
330. 12:18Earlier that evening, Chris had been
331. 12:20alone at home with their daughters,
332. 12:22Bella Watts and Celeste Watts. To anyone
333. 12:26watching from the outside, it appeared
334. 12:28to be a typical family routine. Yet
335. 12:31behind the scenes, Chris had been
336. 12:33struggling with thoughts about the
337. 12:34future of his marriage.
338. 12:36His secret relationship with Nichol
339. 12:38Kessinger had already begun reshaping
340. 12:41the way he saw his life. What had
341. 12:43started as a hidden romance had quickly
342. 12:46become something that influenced nearly
343. 12:49every decision he was making.
344. 12:51When Shanann returned home, she likely
345. 12:54hoped to talk. In the messages she had
346. 12:56sent earlier, it was clear she wanted
347. 12:59answers about the distance that had
348. 13:01grown between them. She wanted to
349. 13:03understand what had gone wrong, and
350. 13:05whether their relationship could still
351. 13:07be saved.
352. 13:08Investigators later believed that the
353. 13:11two may have had a difficult
354. 13:12conversation during those early morning
355. 13:15hours.
356. 13:16No cameras were inside the house, and
357. 13:19only Chris truly knew what happened
358. 13:20next. But what is certain is that by the
359. 13:23time the sun began to rise, everything
360. 13:26had already changed.
361. 13:28Within hours, the family that once
362. 13:31appeared so normal would suddenly
363. 13:32vanish, leaving behind a mystery that
364. 13:35would shock the entire country.
365. 13:38The quiet home in Colorado would soon be
366. 13:40surrounded by investigators, reporters,
367. 13:44and a public desperate for answers.
368. 13:47By the time the sun rose the next
369. 13:48morning, something was clearly wrong.
370. 13:51Friends of Shannan Watts began noticing
371. 13:53that she wasn't responding to messages
372. 13:55or phone calls. For someone who was
373. 13:58usually active and connected throughout
374. 14:00the day, the silence felt unusual.
375. 14:04One of Shannan's closest friends became
376. 14:06especially concerned. She knew Shannan
377. 14:09had just returned home late the night
378. 14:11before, and it didn't make sense that
379. 14:13she would suddenly disappear without
380. 14:15telling anyone.
381. 14:17As the hours passed, worry quickly
382. 14:19turned into panic.
383. 14:21Eventually, a close friend decided to
384. 14:23check on Shannan personally. When she
385. 14:26arrived at the house, something
386. 14:28immediately felt off. Shannan's car was
387. 14:31still parked outside, and many of her
388. 14:33belongings were still inside the home.
389. 14:36But there was no sign of Shannan or the
390. 14:38children.
391. 14:40Inside the house, Chris Watts appeared
392. 14:42calm, but his explanations raised more
393. 14:45questions than answers.
394. 14:47He claimed he didn't know where Shannan
395. 14:49had gone and suggested that she might
396. 14:51have left with the kids after an
397. 14:53argument.
398. 14:54But the story didn't sit right with the
399. 14:56people who knew Shannan best.
400. 14:59Friends insisted that Shannan would
401. 15:00never simply leave without telling
402. 15:02anyone, especially not without taking
403. 15:05important personal items with her.
404. 15:08Something about the situation didn't
405. 15:10make sense.
406. 15:11Soon, authorities were contacted. And
407. 15:14what started as a welfare check quickly
408. 15:16turned into a missing persons
409. 15:18investigation involving Shannan and her
410. 15:21daughters,
411. 15:22Bella Watts and Celeste Watts.
412. 15:25As investigators began asking questions,
413. 15:28Chris continued repeating the same story
414. 15:31that he didn't know where his family had
415. 15:33gone.
416. 15:34But the more officials looked into the
417. 15:36timeline of events, the more suspicious
418. 15:39things began to appear.
419. 15:41What seemed like a simple disappearance
420. 15:43was rapidly becoming something far more
421. 15:46serious.
422. 15:47And before long, the investigation would
423. 15:50begin uncovering details that would
424. 15:52shock the entire nation.
425. 15:55As concern over the disappearance of
426. 15:57Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella
427. 15:59Watts and Celeste Watts grew, the quiet
428. 16:02neighborhood quickly filled with police
429. 16:04officers and worried friends. What had
430. 16:06started as a simple welfare check was
431. 16:09now becoming a serious investigation.
432. 16:13Neighbors gathered outside their homes,
433. 16:15watching as investigators moved in and
434. 16:18out of the Watts residence. Everyone was
435. 16:21asking the same question, where had
436. 16:23Shannan and the children gone?
437. 16:25Meanwhile, Chris Watts continued telling
438. 16:28authorities that he didn't know where
439. 16:30his family was. He repeated that Shannan
440. 16:33had possibly left the house after an
441. 16:35argument and taken the girls with her.
442. 16:38But the story raised more questions than
443. 16:41it answered.
444. 16:42Friends who knew Shannan insisted that
445. 16:44she would never disappear without
446. 16:46contacting someone. Her phone, personal
447. 16:49belongings, and even her car were still
448. 16:52at the house. Those details made it
449. 16:54extremely unlikely that she had left
450. 16:57voluntarily.
451. 16:59>> What's going through your mind right
452. 17:00now?
453. 17:01>> I just I don't know. I don't know where
454. 17:04my kids are. I don't know where Shannan
455. 17:05is. It's
456. 17:06it's not something I could ever
457. 17:09ever fathom would happen in my lifetime.
458. 17:11And
459. 17:12I I have no inclination of where she is.
460. 17:15>> Yeah.
461. 17:16>> I've re- We've reached out to friends,
462. 17:18family, our both of our families are
463. 17:21back in North Carolina.
464. 17:23So, they're
465. 17:24beside themselves. Like, we all have
466. 17:26friends in North Carolina. We have
467. 17:27friends here. We have friends
468. 17:28everywhere.
469. 17:29And not knowing like where she is or
470. 17:32where the kids are, it's
471. 17:34I I I don't know what to do right now. I
472. 17:36just feel so alone in this house right
473. 17:37now, and I don't know I don't know where
474. 17:39to go from here right now.
475. 17:41>> And you said you had to stay here by
476. 17:42yourself last night. I when I opened the
477. 17:43door, it's like you're almost like
478. 17:45>> I I mean, my heart's my heart's racing a
479. 17:46mile a minute. I mean, just
480. 17:48I everything that's happening in the
481. 17:50last last few days is just it's
482. 17:53earth-shattering right now. It's like my
483. 17:55world's been turned upside down.
484. 17:57Like, I have friends that have offered
485. 17:59to to help I just I didn't feel like I
486. 18:00should have left last night. Like, just
487. 18:01in case like maybe she came back, maybe
488. 18:04the kids came back, maybe something
489. 18:05happened, maybe I there's a knock on the
490. 18:06door.
491. 18:07I wanted to be here. I didn't think last
492. 18:09night was a good time to stay with
493. 18:10anybody else or
494. 18:12I mean,
495. 18:13I've I've want I want I've want friends
496. 18:15to be here with me cuz that just makes
497. 18:17me feel better.
498. 18:19>> And what how do you think the police
499. 18:21have responded so far?
500. 18:23>> they've been amazing. They've been in
501. 18:24constant contact. Frederick Police
502. 18:26Department, detectives, officers,
503. 18:28sergeants.
504. 18:29They have the dogs coming through to get
505. 18:31scents. I mean, it's they've been on top
506. 18:33of everything. Missing persons reports,
507. 18:34everything's been they've been
508. 18:37>> Do you have any idea where she could be?
509. 18:38>> Um she said she was going to a friend's
510. 18:40house with the kids, and that's the last
511. 18:42thing I heard, and that was that was it.
512. 18:44It was very vague, and it was very
513. 18:47I don't have no inclination of where she
514. 18:49is. Every friend that I've called that
515. 18:50has has a car seat that has I mean, that
516. 18:53could have come and got her. It's
517. 18:56>> And you saw her yesterday morning.
518. 18:57>> Yeah, I saw her yesterday morning. She
519. 18:58got back from the airport.
520. 19:00And I mean, it's
521. 19:02she she has to be somewhere. I In my
522. 19:04heart, I believe that she is somewhere,
523. 19:06and I hope that she is safe.
524. 19:07>> Search dog going in your house right now
525. 19:09to get a scent.
526. 19:11A line of police cars.
527. 19:13>> I'm I'm so happy that they're here right
528. 19:15now doing everything that they can. It
529. 19:17just It scares the living crap out of me
530. 19:19right now just knowing that it's come to
531. 19:21this and that she didn't come home last
532. 19:23night with the kids.
533. 19:24Like Shannan, Bella, and Celeste, if
534. 19:26you're out there, please
535. 19:28just come home.
536. 19:29>> And you yesterday when her friends were
537. 19:31calling frantic, you something in you
538. 19:32said, "Well, she'll just be home."
539. 19:34>> Yeah, I mean, I I It wasn't like her not
540. 19:36to answer a phone call or a text. And
541. 19:38when her friend Nicole showed up at the
542. 19:41door, I was just like, "All right,
543. 19:42something something's up."
544. 19:44And
545. 19:45I came home and
546. 19:47it was like walked into a ghost town.
547. 19:49Like everything
548. 19:51She wasn't here. Kids weren't here. It
549. 19:52was like It was just They were here and
550. 19:54then they were gone.
551. 19:55>> Yeah.
552. 19:56And did you see the kids in the morning,
553. 19:57too?
554. 19:58>> Just in the monitor.
555. 19:59>> Oh, yeah.
556. 20:00And you leave really early.
557. 20:03>> Investigators also began examining the
558. 20:06timeline of the previous night.
559. 20:08Surveillance cameras from nearby homes
560. 20:10captured small but important details
561. 20:13about movements around the property.
562. 20:16Detectives carefully reviewed every
563. 20:18second of the footage hoping to find a
564. 20:20clue.
565. 20:22At the same time, friends and family
566. 20:24launched a desperate effort to find
567. 20:26Shannan and the children. Social media
568. 20:29posts spread rapidly asking the public
569. 20:32to help locate them.
570. 20:34As the search intensified, the case
571. 20:36began attracting national attention.
572. 20:39News stations started covering the story
573. 20:42and the pressure on investigators
574. 20:44increased.
575. 20:45Behind the scenes, detectives were
576. 20:48slowly gathering information and
577. 20:50building a clearer picture of what might
578. 20:52have happened inside the house that
579. 20:54night.
580. 20:55And with every new discovery, the focus
581. 20:58of the investigation was beginning to
582. 21:00shift closer to home.
583. 21:02As the search for Shannan Watts and her
584. 21:04daughters Bella Watts and Celeste Watts
585. 21:07continued. Investigators began taking a
586. 21:10closer look at the timeline of events
587. 21:12inside the Watts home.
588. 21:14The more they examined the details, the
589. 21:16more questions began to appear.
590. 21:19At first, Chris Watts tried to appear
591. 21:21cooperative. He spoke with officers and
592. 21:24even gave a public interview asking for
593. 21:27his family to return home safely.
594. 21:35>> If you can park out there on the side, I
595. 21:37just want to get everything back in.
596. 21:39It'd be easier to lugging everything out
597. 21:40there, all the tools I had to bring in.
598. 22:34Hello.
599. 22:35>> What do you want to do with it?
600. 22:38>> Um
601. 22:41My detective just showed up.
602. 22:43Um the FBI want to talk to you. He'd
603. 22:44probably
604. 22:46Like I said, he might have you call at
605. 22:47the bank and see if there's any kind of
606. 22:48activity.
607. 22:49Um
608. 22:51>> Cuz if there is any sort of action out
609. 22:53there
610. 22:53>> One of his cameras is
611. 22:54>> I would have got it.
612. 22:55>> Like we had
613. 22:56We had issues the other other week when
614. 22:58people were coming were stealing stuff
615. 22:59out of like garages and stuff like that.
616. 23:02And I had parked my truck out here.
617. 23:03>> here to park right here.
618. 23:04>> Yeah. See if someone I can see where
619. 23:06someone tried to jimmy with a flathead
620. 23:08screwdriver.
621. 23:10>> Over there.
622. 23:10>> And it was just like
623. 23:12>> But if any action would have happened,
624. 23:13any cars or anything left your house, I
625. 23:15would
626. 23:15>> Yeah, there would have been like right
627. 23:16in that area. This would have picked I
628. 23:18mean
629. 23:18>> Oh, it'll pick up anything coming down
630. 23:20the street this way.
631. 23:21>> You want to go back to your truck now?
632. 23:22>> Oh, yeah.
633. 23:22>> Okay.
634. 23:24>> Watch, I'll show you.
635. 23:26There's nothing on
636. 23:26>> To many viewers watching the interview
637. 23:28on television, his words sounded calm.
638. 23:32But some people noticed something
639. 23:33unusual about his behavior.
640. 23:36Detectives also began analyzing
641. 23:38surveillance footage from nearby homes.
642. 23:41One neighbor's camera captured activity
643. 23:44outside the Watts house during the early
644. 23:46morning hours when Shannan had just
645. 23:48returned from her trip.
646. 23:50When officers showed Chris the footage,
647. 23:53his reaction immediately caught their
648. 23:55attention.
649. 23:56According to investigators, Chris
650. 23:58appeared nervous while watching the
651. 24:00video. The footage showed him moving
652. 24:03around his truck in the driveway early
653. 24:05that morning. At the time, he explained
654. 24:08that he was simply loading tools for
655. 24:10work.
656. 24:11But detectives were beginning to suspect
657. 24:13there was more to the story.
658. 24:16As they continued investigating, they
659. 24:18discovered additional information about
660. 24:21Chris's personal life.
661. 24:23One of the most significant details was
662. 24:25his hidden relationship with Nichol
663. 24:27Kessinger, a co-worker he had been
664. 24:29seeing secretly.
665. 24:31This discovery changed the direction of
666. 24:34the investigation.
667. 24:36What had initially looked like a
668. 24:37mysterious disappearance was now
669. 24:39beginning to reveal a deeper and more
670. 24:42complicated situation.
671. 24:44Detectives started questioning whether
672. 24:47the truth about Shannan and the children
673. 24:49had been hidden from the very beginning.
674. 24:52With mounting evidence and increasing
675. 24:54pressure, the case was quickly
676. 24:56approaching a turning point.
677. 24:58And soon, investigators would confront
678. 25:01Chris with the facts they had uncovered.
679. 25:04For more gripping true crime stories,
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683. 25:13As investigators continued examining the
684. 25:15disappearance of Shannan Watts and her
685. 25:17daughters Bella Watts and Celeste Watts,
686. 25:20the pressure on Chris Watts began to
687. 25:22intensify. Detectives had gathered
688. 25:25surveillance footage, phone records, and
689. 25:28statements from friends and neighbors.
690. 25:30Piece by piece, the story Chris had been
691. 25:33telling was beginning to fall apart.
692. 25:36Investigators invited Chris in for
693. 25:38another round of questioning. At first,
694. 25:41he repeated the same explanation, that
695. 25:44[snorts] Shannan had left the house with
696. 25:46the children after an argument, and that
697. 25:48he had no idea where they had gone.
698. 25:51But detectives were no longer convinced.
699. 25:54They confronted Chris with evidence that
700. 25:56didn't match his version of events.
701. 25:59Surveillance footage from the neighbor's
702. 26:01camera showed activity around Chris's
703. 26:03truck during the early hours of the
704. 26:05morning. The timeline also revealed that
705. 26:08Shannan's phone and personal belongings
706. 26:11had never left the house.
707. 26:13As the questioning continued, the
708. 26:15tension in the room grew heavier.
709. 26:18Detectives also revealed that they had
710. 26:20discovered Chris's secret relationship
711. 26:23with Nichol Kessinger. The hidden
712. 26:25romance added a new layer to the
713. 26:27investigation and raised serious
714. 26:29questions about Chris's motives.
715. 26:32With the evidence piling up, the
716. 26:34situation became impossible for Chris to
717. 26:37maintain his original story.
718. 26:40Eventually, the truth about what
719. 26:42happened inside the Watts home began to
720. 26:44emerge. The shocking reality of the case
721. 26:47would soon spread across the country,
722. 26:50leaving millions of people stunned by
723. 26:52what had been uncovered.
724. 26:54What started as a missing person's
725. 26:56investigation had now turned into one of
726. 26:59the most disturbing true crime cases in
727. 27:01recent history.
728. 27:03The quiet neighborhood that once seemed
729. 27:05ordinary had become the center of a
730. 27:08tragedy that would never be forgotten.
731. 27:11As the investigation into Chris Watts
732. 27:13reached its conclusion, the
733. 27:15heartbreaking truth about what happened
734. 27:17to Shannan Watts and her daughters,
735. 27:19Bella Watts and Celeste Watts, became
736. 27:21clear to the world. What had started as
737. 27:24a desperate search for a missing family
738. 27:27had turned into one of the most shocking
739. 27:29criminal cases in recent memory.
740. 27:32During the investigation, detectives
741. 27:34reviewed countless messages, phone
742. 27:37calls, and social media posts to
743. 27:39understand what had happened in the
744. 27:41final hours before the tragedy.
745. 27:44Among those pieces of evidence was the
746. 27:46message Shannan had sent earlier
747. 27:48expressing concern about her marriage.
748. 27:51At the time, it seemed like a simple
749. 27:53message from a wife worried about her
750. 27:55relationship. But after everything that
751. 27:58followed, it became one of the most
752. 28:00haunting details in the entire case.
753. 28:04It showed that Shannan was trying to
754. 28:06understand the distance growing between
755. 28:08her and Chris. She wanted to talk to
756. 28:11repair what felt broken
757. 28:13and to protect the family she loved so
758. 28:15deeply.
759. 28:17But behind the scenes, Chris had already
760. 28:19been living a secret life involving his
761. 28:22relationship with Nichol Kessinger.
762. 28:24That hidden relationship, combined with
763. 28:27the growing tension inside the marriage,
764. 28:29created a situation that eventually led
765. 28:32to devastating consequences.
766. 28:35Today, the story of the Watts family
767. 28:37continues to be discussed around the
768. 28:39world, not only because of the shocking
769. 28:42crime, but also because of the many
770. 28:44warning signs that appeared before
771. 28:46everything went wrong.
772. 28:49Most importantly, people remember
773. 28:51Shannan and her daughters for the lives
774. 28:53they lived and the love they shared.
775. 28:56Their story remains a painful reminder
776. 28:59of how quickly hidden problems can
777. 29:01escalate into tragedy.
778. 29:03For more gripping true crime stories,
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